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About six days ago I wrote a blog about Heng Swee Keat’s decision to remove himself from the succession to LHL entitled “PAP in Disarray? Much More Likely That LHL Is Moving the Pieces Around the Chessboard To Ensure His Son Is There To Succeed Him When He Finally Retires” A few days ago state media hack Han Fook Kwang... 

It is important for the cabinet ministers to work as a team. They should discuss the challenges facing the country and use the resources of their ministries and civil servants to deal with these challenges. It will be very bad if the ministers work in silos and each minister looks after his own KPIs (key performance indicators)... 

This pandemic has revealed clearly the priorities as well as behavior of the PAP government. Their first priority is the prosperity of big business. The welfare of the people is a very distant second, and only because it supports the first priority. When the pandemic first began, the government took a long time to lockdown the...